Also known as rumour, rumors, rumours, hearsay
200px|thumb|right|A 1930s Works Progress Administration poster depicts a man with WPA shovel attacking a [[wolf labeled 'rumor.]] A rumor (American English), or rumour' (British English; see spelling differences; derived from Latin 'noise'), is an unverified piece of information circulating among people, especially without solid evidence.
A rumor is an unverified piece of information that spreads among people without solid evidence behind it. Rumors matter because they circulate widely and can influence what people believe and how they behave, even when they lack factual basis.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).